Sleep Inn & Suites Milwaukee

I'm working on a grant for the National Institutes of Health that is due early next week. Once that's done, it's full-on preparation for our month-long Journey to India. Daisy is doing her Santa impression (making her list, checking it thrice) and we received 4 new pieces of luggage the other day. <br><br>The airline tickets are booked and now we just have to finalize some domestic trips while on the sub-continent.<br>

Exciting times! One more day before the big trip and we are doing out last minute preparations before we go. There are things to be packed though and that will get done tonight and then a little bit more tomorrow. We have an evening flight so we should be pretty well rested and ready to scout about Copenhagen as soon as we get checked into the hotel.<br><br>Stay tuned for more!<br>

... it would be to pick out one. <br><br>Presently, Wisconsin is very chilly. I feel like it's October, rather than August. The high is in the very low 60's! Today I've just been working around the house, making bread, washing jackets and getting my room clean.<br><br>That's all I got for now, but will write more when I have more!<br>

... our goodbyes.<br><br>Joe and I headed over to my mom and dad's house. Mom prepared an elegant, wonderful meal with the odd addition of Elmo's Organic Tomato Soup...complete with delicious birthday cupcakes for me. I also received the usual assortment of birthday gifts, including the following:<br><br>- A set of dog-themed dish towels<br><br>- Something to remove deoderant from my shirt<br><br>- Something to scrub my feet<br><br>- $1 ...

Thanks to Rob for allowing me to stay in his baller ass apartment situated directly on top of a bar, I got to experience the greatness that is Milwaukee (when the weather is nice). I got to hit up a few brewery tours, some sweet bars (spy bar!), cheap beer wasn't hard to find, finally tried out P90X (ouch) and I even experienced the Blink182 ...

... incase they offend someone... it was actually really cool. :) The only problem was I had 3 families to spend Christmas with, and I had to somehow spend quality time with them all. I ended up spending Christmas Eve with the Kushners, Christmas Day with the Paulys and New Years with the Seramurs. I think this the best best I could've managed considering. It's the same old problem- there's just not enough Gary ...

... to get that done. Next stop, Denver for a bit of a layover and then the final stop on this domestic leg will be LAX. I'd rather fly out of San Francisco though, I am not much of a fan of LAX. I guess the saving grace of the deal is that as soon as I land and retrieve my bags I just have to head on off to the Philippine Airlines check in counter to get all set ...

Well one week from today I will be heading out for a long distance destination. This would be so much better with that Indiana Jones red traveling line starting out in Milwaukee then going to LAX and then hopping the Pacific Ocean to Taiwan and then finally stopping in Hong Kong. Yes. Hong Kong. Now you know the reason for the picture on the front. And I used to watch the cartoon as a kid and it was one of my favourites. Whilst in Hong Kong though, I won't be on vacation ...

... crepes that were so light we practically melted on your tongue. Then back to do some more shop-checking before we headed back to the car and came back to Milwaukee. I sat here and did a journal entry while everyone else did the sensible thing and went upstairs to take naps. But we all have our own priorities. I finished just in time to get back to the room to get ready ...

In 2004 I spent four weeks in Milwaukee: three in September-October period and one in early December, on our annual training. It was a good time, the team was great and we had some fun going out:P It was then when I discovered the Milwaukee Athletic Club hotel and it was a nice find - som much better than the previous year's "**** East"! Taking an advantage of being ...